La Libération de Paris
| La Libération de Paris l'insurrection Nationale inséparable de la Libération Nationale | |
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 Titlescreen | |
| Directed by | André Zwobada |
| Written by | Pierre Bost |
| Starring | Philippe Leclerc de Hauteclocque Charles de Gaulle Georges Bidault Alexandre Parodi Marie-Pierre Koenig Alphonse Juin Brigitte Servan-Schreiber |
| Narrated by | Pierre Blanchar |
| Distributed by | Le Comité de Libération du Cinéma Français France Libre Actualités |
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Running time | 31:27 minutes |
| Country | France |
| Language | French |
La Libération de Paris (The Liberation of Paris) is a short historical documentary film shot in secret by small units of the French Resistance during the Battle for Paris in August 1944.[1]
Production
In 1943, a group of French filmmakers, which included Louis Daquin, Jean Grémillon, Jacques Becker, and Pierre Renoir (Jean's brother), founded the Comité de libération du cinéma français. Technicians from this group filmed the uprising in Paris from its beginnings on August 19, 1944, and the footage was developed and edited for the film, which was released to French theaters on September 1, 1944, immediately after the German departure from the occupied territories.[2]
See also
- Liberation of Paris
- Is Paris Burning? (1966) directed by French filmmaker René Clément, with a screenplay by Gore Vidal, Francis Ford Coppola, Jean Aurenche, Pierre Bost and Claude Brulé, adapted from the 1965 book of the same title by Larry Collins and Dominique Lapierre. The film stars an international ensemble cast that includes French (Jean-Paul Belmondo, Alain Delon, Bruno Cremer, Pierre Vaneck, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Leslie Caron, Charles Boyer, Yves Montand), American (Orson Welles, Kirk Douglas, Glenn Ford, Robert Stack, Anthony Perkins, George Chakiris) and German (Gert Fröbe, Hannes Messemer, Ernst Fritz Fürbringer, Harry Meyen, Wolfgang Preiss) stars.
- Diplomacy (2014) offers an imagined account of the efforts by the Swedish diplomat Raoul Nordling to avert the destruction of the city by the German general Dietrich von Choltitz. Staring André Dussolier and Niels Arestrup, it won the César Award for Best Adaptation[3].
Notes
- ↑ Le Journal de la Résistance : La Libération de Paris, National Audiovisual Institute, September 1st, 1944
- ↑ Hoffmann, Hilmar (1997-01-01). The Triumph of Propaganda. John A. Broadwin and Volker Rolf Berghahn, translators. Berghahn Books. ISBN 9781571811226. Retrieved 2009-08-05.
- ↑ "Cesar Awards: 'Timbktu' Sweeps, Kristen Stewart Makes History". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 28 February 2015.
Media links
- La Libération de Paris, Archive.org
Categories:
- 1944 films
- 1944 French-language films
- Documentary films about World War II
- French short documentary films
- 20th century in Paris
- 1944 short documentary films
- Black-and-white documentary films
- Documentary films about Paris
- Films with screenplays by Pierre Bost
- French black-and-white films
- Films about the French Resistance
- 1944 French films
- Paris in World War II
- French-language short documentary films
- 1940s French film stubs
- World War II documentary film stubs